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Beyond Revealed Preference: Choice Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics / B. Douglas Bernheim, Antonio Rangel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernheim, B. Douglas.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w13737.
- NBER working paper series no. w13737
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Beyond Revealed Preference
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2008.
- Summary:
- We propose a broad generalization of standard choice-theoretic welfare economics that encompasses a wide variety of non-standard behavioral models. Our approach exploits the coherent aspects of choice which those positive models typically attempt to capture. It replaces the standard revealed preference relation with an unambiguous choice relation: roughly, x is (strictly) unambiguously chosen over y (written xP*y) if y is never chosen when x is available. Under weak assumptions, P* is acyclic and therefore suitable for welfare analysis; it is also the most discerning welfare criterion that never overrules choice. The resulting framework generates natural counterparts for the standard tools of applied welfare economics, and is easily applied in the context of specific behavioral theories, with novel implications. Though not universally discerning, it lends itself to principled refinements.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- January 2008.
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